Pocket shut down. Here is what to do with the habit it left behind

What happened

Mozilla shut Pocket down in July 2025. Exports stayed open until October 8, 2025, and after that the door closed. If you grabbed a CSV before the deadline, you have your list. If you did not, the archive is gone, and no amount of searching will produce it - that is the honest answer, and it is worth saying plainly before anyone spends an afternoon looking.

What people miss is rarely a specific article. It is the button. Pocket trained a save reflex: see something, hit save, get on with your day, feel fine about closing the tab. When the button disappeared, the reflex had nowhere to go, and the links went back to where they were before - open tabs, sent-to-self messages, and a bookmarks folder called Read.

The shutdown exposed two different jobs

Pocket was doing two unrelated things and its users did not have to notice until it stopped. Sorting your own list into the two piles is the whole decision.

The first pile is read-once. A long article, a newsletter you will get to on the train, a piece someone recommended. You want it stripped of ads, readable offline, on your phone, and gone from the queue once you have read it. That is a read-it-later app: reader view, sync to a phone, a queue that empties.

The second pile is return-to. Documentation you re-open monthly, the supplier list, the tools your team uses, the recipe that actually worked, the client's portal. These were never a queue - they were a filing problem hiding in a queue. They need categories, search, and sharing, and they should not be trapped in one person's browser.

A reading queue is meant to empty; a link library is meant to be found again - one tool being asked to do both is how the pile got out of hand.

If your CSV is on your machine

Open Linksley, go to Import & export in the sidebar, and pick the Pocket CSV. The import becomes a board with categories, and from there you can split, rename, delete the two hundred you will never open, and share what belongs to other people. The same importer takes Toby JSON, Raindrop CSV, and any browser's bookmarks HTML, so a Pocket export can land next to everything else instead of becoming another separate island.

Export works the other way too, standard bookmarks HTML, any time, on every plan. After a shutdown, that matters more than it used to: the test of a tool is not whether it will last forever but whether your list walks out cleanly if it does not.

The honest limitation

If your Pocket was genuinely a reading queue, Linksley is not the replacement. There is no reader view, no offline article storage, no article text saved at all, and no mobile app - the board experience is desktop-first. Save an article link and you get a link, not a stripped-down copy you can read on a plane. For that, use a dedicated read-it-later app and keep it.

Linksley is the answer for the other pile: the links you keep coming back to, that other people need too, that you want on your new tab instead of buried in a folder. Many ex-Pocket users end up with both, and that split is fine - it just means each tool is doing one job well.